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Survey data on citizens' perceptions of avian and their ecosystem services in Zhoushan. [PDF]

open access: yesData Brief
Qian W   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

An Examination of Cultural Transformation in Türkiye After 1980 in the Context of “Neoliberal Governmentality”

open access: yesSociology Lens, Volume 39, Issue 3, Page 522-542, September 2026.
ABSTRACT The January 24 Decisions of 1980 and the subsequent Özal era marked a profound rupture, carrying Türkiye from an import substitution economy to an outward‐oriented, “free‐market” order. Drawing on Michel Foucault's concept of neoliberal governmentality, this study conducts a qualitative, interpretivist discourse analysis of Turgut Özal's ...
Muhammed Salim Danış
wiley   +1 more source

Speaker Perceptions of Americanisms in Nigerian English

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 30, Issue 4, Page 426-438, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the perceptions of Americanisms among three generations of Nigerians. While prior research has provided quantitative evidence for American influence in contemporary Nigerian English, the role of language beliefs and ideologies in mediating such changes remains underexplored.
Temitayo Olatoye
wiley   +1 more source

Visual Components to Interpretation—Formal Approaches to Visible Meaning

open access: yesLanguage and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 5, September/October 2026.
ABSTRACT Visual components of communication interact with the core linguistic system at all levels and make an important contribution to the meaning of the utterance expressed. This does not only apply to sign languages, which exclusively rely on the visual channel, but also co‐speech gestures and emojis, which are visual means that accompany and ...
Cornelia Ebert   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does Information About the Origins of Figurative Idioms Help Learners to Remember Them? A Multi‐Site Study

open access: yesThe Modern Language Journal, Volume 110, Issue 3, Page 738-752, Autumn (Fall) 2026.
ABSTRACT It has been suggested that informing language learners about the original, literal meaning of idioms helps them to remember these expressions, but the empirical evidence is limited. A new study was conducted with three groups of learners of English (53 Chinese students at a university in Canada, 56 students at a university in China, and 77 ...
Xiaofei Wang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Adaptive Phoneme State Learning Architecture for Enhanced Speech Recognition Using Backpropagation Neural Network and Hidden Markov Model. [PDF]

open access: yesF1000Res
Siddalingappa R   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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